Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution

Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
ISBN-10
193893802X
ISBN-13
9781938938023
Series
Mania
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
464
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Top Five Books LLC
Authors
Ronald K. L. Collins, David M. Skover

Description

Mania takes you into the world of the young rebels who transformed American culture in the 1950s-a world of sex, drugs, jazz, crime, insanity, and a defiant new literature. It tells the story of Lucien Carr's killing of David Kammerer, the car chase that led to Allen Ginsberg's committal to a mental asylum, William S. Burroughs' heroin addiction and deadly "William Tell act," Jack Kerouac's seven-year struggle to publish On The Road, and the creation of Ginsberg's ecstatic masterpiece "Howl," which the authorities declared obscene and fought fervently to suppress. It is a story too unbelievable to make up. Book jacket.

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